Hellcats

television series

Hellcats was a television series on the CW Network. The show focused on the lives of college cheerleaders, mainly focusing on Marti Perkins (Alyson Michalka), a pre-law student who joins the cheerleading squad to receive an athletic scholarship.

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Savannah: (about cheerleaders) We are an internationally recognized competitive sport. We spend 20 hours a week practicing. We bench press twice our body weight and run a 7-minute mile. We compete with broken thumbs and twisted ankles, smiling through the pain. We are athletes.

Marti: Back in Dollywood, maybe.

Dan [to Marti]: Hey, you are mighty. You are Bat Girl.

Marti: You are blindly optimistic.

Marti: Oh hey, I'm one of the new girls, Marti.

Alice: I know who you are. I voted against you. I was overruled. Democracy's a bitch.

Marti: Apparently, so are you.

Marti: You know, I don't trust any culture that builds pyramids. Human or otherwise. You know, Egyptians enslaved the Jews.

Vanessa: Gather up, Hellcats! Do you feel it? Do you feel the weight? Today, one squad will qualify for regionals. No one in their right mind thinks it's gonna be us. The university, they've given us an ultimatum: place at nationals, or they will gut our program. Are you feeling the weight? Well, I'm not. I'm light as a feather. Because you are champions of the spirit. You ignore the scoreboard! Long odds are irrelevant. In the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity, you do not waver. You roll, you tumble, you fly.

Marti: Who are those guys?

Vanessa: Memphis Christian. The team to beat.

Marti: Not much for showing the skin, are they?

Vanessa: Well, Mem-Chris is a religious school. Jesus is the wind beneath their skirts.

Wanda: (sees Marti at qualifiers) Well, Marti Beth Perkins, what a surprise to see you here. My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail.

Wanda [to Marti]: I love you, and I am so proud of you, and Marti, Marti! I wouldn't miss one of your events for the whole wide world. (licks her finger and rubs Marti's face) Look at that eyeliner. You look like a truck stop tranny.

Alice: (to Lewis about her father) Suppose that I had told him how you stomped all over my heart. He'd probably come to hate you for being cruel and hurtful, and when you eventually realize what a horrible mistake you made and we got back together, he'd have a very tough time forgiving you.

Marti: I did something I regret with Dan.

Vanessa: Savannah's Dan?

Marti: He was my Dan first.

Marti: No one will give me a chance to apologize, or explain, or anything. So...I just can't let myself care anymore.

Vanessa: I think you do care. But the one thing I can't coach is desire, so if you wanna give up, so be it.

Marti: I don't have a choice.

Vanessa: You're as good as any of the girls in there. I can go in there and simply tell them you're flying, but I don't like to run my team that way. But if you decide that your spot on this team, in this family, is worth fighting for, I'm gonna support you.

Wanda: My daughter is a very driven girl.

Travis: I've noticed that. You know, she makes my life a lot better.

Wanda: Yeah?

Travis: Hopeful, you know, like I got a shot at getting out of this place while I'm still relatively young.

Wanda: That is a wonderful thing for a mother to hear about her child. Thank you for that.

Marti: Savannah, you're my best girlfriend. I don't have one of those. I never did before, and I can't lose you.

Savannah: Well, if it helps, I enjoyed hitting you with a pillow.

Marti: This is your first time at sectionals as a Hellcat. You have to fly.

Savannah: I can't let you.

Marti: This is so small but...it's something I can do for you. Something I can, I can give up for you. So let me. Please.

Savannah: How do you explain that my ankle miraculously healed?

Marti: Acupuncture?

Savannah: That's good.

Alice: Lewis and I broke up months ago.

Michael: What?

Alice: I didn't tell you because I knew it would disappoint you. But then I realized it didn't matter because you have been disappointing me for years. You didn't show up today and it hurt. You need to know that.

Michael: Alice...

Alice: Keep your flowers because I am getting on a bus to go home and they would wilt. Take some time to think about how you're gonna make this up to me. And, if you choose not to, then we'll see each other at Easter and we can both pretend I never said a word about anything. (referring to Kelly) And you're right, this one's a keeper.

Jake: (at his press conference, taking ownership of his crime) Thank y'all for coming. This is difficult for me, but I'm afraid I've let all of you down. My friends, teammates, coaches, and our fans. I know now that an innocent man went to jail for my crime. I can't allow that to continue. And that's why I've come forward and told the District Attorney that Travis Guthrie must go free. And I must do my time.

Deirdre Perkins: (In the music shop talking to Marti about her time with their dad, apologising for running away from Marti) Sorry I ran from you. A shrink once told me I have an Avoidant Personality Disorder. I Stopped seeing her! So, I guess it proves she was right...